Formby shopkeeper Brenda Maclean loses battle with cancer

A POPULAR Formby shopkeeper who had cared for her husband when he woke from a coma last year has died.

Brenda Maclean, who had worked at Cassidy’s fruit shop in Formby village for 12 years, has died of cancer aged 57.

The grandmother and mother-of-three, who lived in Royal Crescent, lost her battle with cancer just three months after finding out it was terminal.

More than 300 people attended her funeral at Holy Family Church on Monday and her family received around 150 cards of condolence in memory of Brenda who known for her great sense of humour.

Illness prevented her working in Cassidy’s for the past nine months and she only found it was cancer in late November last year.

In September, when she was ill, her husband Neil, who is a Formby postman, died for two minutes after an ulcer burst. He was revived and put in an induced coma for two weeks – Brenda would travel every day to Southport hospital to see him.

Neil said: “She never complained. Even though she as in pain.”

When she was diagnosed doctors gave her just three weeks to live but she survived for 10 weeks and her husband cared for her at home throughout.